A local official said there’s “fear and panic among the women and children. They’re calling for the government to save them.”

A local nurse said victims suffer from infected burns, suffocation and dehydration. ISIS is known to use toxic sarin, mustard gas and chlorine.

A previous article discussed US/Turkish/Saudi-backed ISIS and other terrorist groups use of sarin, other toxic agents and yellow phosphorus able to burn flesh to the bone like napalm on contact with air.

The latest attack suggests more to come in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere regionally, endless violence in a part of the world devastated by Washington’s rage to dominate.

The late US General William Odom (1932 - 2008) once called Bush’s Iraq war “the greatest strategic disaster in US history” - compounded by Obama’s Libyan, Syrian, and Yemeni wars, along with continued aggression on Afghanistan and Iraq, an endless cycle of violence and chaos, making world peace and stability impossible.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."

http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

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